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Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> On 11:59 Sun 25 Jan , Alistair Bush wrote: |
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>> Possible Solution: |
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>> Merging java-overlay and java-experimental. From my perspective this |
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>> isn't a good one as we loss most of the benefits of java-experimental. |
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> Combine this with package.mask. To me, experimental means masked. |
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Experimental within java means a lot of things, or at least it should. |
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Anything from user contributed and non-dev qa'd to packages with |
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bundled jars to attempts to package projects like maven which are |
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difficult and time consuming ( and which attempts to do so have failed |
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numerous times before might I add ). |
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Asking non-dev contributors to handle package.mask's would be a "less |
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than ideal". Resulting in "interesting breakages". Currently by adding |
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java-experimental ( which might I add isn't available thru layman ) you |
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are accepting that risk. |
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At least java and kde have need of this, and I could imagine sunrise |
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could also use this ( either now or in the future ). |
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I have implemented a patch [1] tho support this from a repoman |
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perspective but believe its benefits could go much further. |
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Eventually I hope that zmedico will accept it, once he has a chance to |
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consider it and I have time to clean it up. |
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Once repository support is implemented (this is very much depending on |
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the details of the implementation) I will start making a patch to will |
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have portage check whether an overlays parents are "before" that overlay. |
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ali_bush |
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[1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~ali_bush/portage_parent_repo_support.patch |
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